Words of wisdom from G.K. Chesterton: The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. This is part of a complete episode.
June in Miami, Florida, says every time she hears the name of this show, sheβs reminded of a story that involves the tradition of fruit-filled Easter buns in her native Jamaica. Sheβd put hers on a windowsill at work, but at some point when she left...
Communicating by text often involves those colorful symbols called emoji, those cartoon-like images of everything from smiley faces to sushi. As of Summer 2025, there were some 3800 of them, and every few months, the Unicode Consortium adds even...
Kim from Council Bluffs, Iowa, notes that kΔ±rmΔ±zΔ±, the Turkish word for βred,β sounds a lot like the English word crimson. Are they related? Yes! Both derive from a word for the insect whose scientific name is Kermes vermilio. The English words...
Salon magazine writer Andi Zeisler likens the em-dash to black licorice: βThose who like it love it; those who donβt will loudly and repeatedly let you know.β This is part of a complete episode.
Greg in Mena, Arkansas, says that when he was learning to be a professional pilot, one of his instructors would say, You thought like Nelly if someone had thought they were doing something correctly, but failed to. Although the phrase is not that...